Our column on Digital Badges: Recognizing, Assessing, and Motivating Learners In and Out of School Contexts was just published in JAAL. I co-wrote the column with Katerina Schenke, James E. Willis, and Daniel Hickey. As a supplement to the column, we invited a series of experts to spend some time discussing the broader impact of…
Our column on Digital Badges: Recognizing, Assessing, and Motivating Learners In and Out of School Contexts was just published in JAAL. I co-wrote the column with Katerina Schenke, James E. Willis, and Daniel Hickey. As a supplement to the column, we invited a series of experts to spend some time discussing the broader impact of…
Our column on Digital Badges: Recognizing, Assessing, and Motivating Learners In and Out of School Contexts was just published in JAAL. I co-wrote the column with Katerina Schenke, James E. Willis, and Daniel Hickey. As a supplement to the column, we invited a series of experts to spend some time discussing the broader impact of…
This post is intended to provide an overview of information about digital badges and possibilities in teaching and learning. This post is a supplemental piece meant to accompany the column printed in the Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy. You can find out more about the column and subsequent interviews in coming weeks. More about…
This week my third column as Multiliteracies Department Editor for JAAL was published. The column, titled Digital Badges: Recognizing, Assessing, and Motivating Learners In and Out of School Contexts provides an overview of digital and open badges in teaching, learning, and assessment. Digital badges are web-enabled tokens of accomplishment that contain specific claims and evidence about learning and achievement along…
This post is intended to provide an overview of information about digital badges and possibilities in teaching and learning. This post is a supplemental piece meant to accompany the column printed in the Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy. You can find out more about the column and subsequent interviews in coming weeks. What is…
TL;DR: In this post I provide an overview of the work conducted on the web literacy map learning pathways, specifically the privacy pathway and associated badges. At the bottom of the post I give the link to review the notes from the #openbadges call on 1/28/2015. Work on the web literacy map is progressing at a…
TL;DR version: An update in my continued exploration and development of a digital badging system. At this point…it’s good news. Scroll to the bottom to review the relaunch of the badges. It has been awhile, but throughout this blog I’ve had a thread that documents my trials and tribulations as I build, and rebuild my…
TL;DR Version: Come join, lurk, connect, share, and learn in the Online Research & Media Skills MOOC. We’ll be discussing ways to integrate the Mozilla Web Literacy Map into our classroom. And…yeap…we’ve got badges. Join here. Come join us for the first official running of the Online Research & Media Skills (ORMS) moderated, open, online…
This page serves as my application for the Web Literacy Ninja Badge as offered by Doug Belshaw. The badge, and the requisite criteria are available here. To review my work to submit for this open badge I consulted the Web Lit Map available here and pasted in the descriptors below. I am applying for this…